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Serve as a project director and program manager on multiple, concurrent, national-scale projects, insuring timely completion of project deliverables. Includes managing project staff, building and monitoring partner relationships and engaging and aligning stakeholders. Lead the operational efforts for WebJunction, a continuing education program for library staff, with over 300,000 site visits and 20,000 learners annually, including the development and solicitation of site content.Contribute to the successful development of grant proposals to private and federal funders by designing project budgets based on programmatic dependencies. Responsible for fiscal leadership on a portfolio of grants, creating budgets and forecasts, monitoring spending, and complying with grant requirements and reporting deadlines.

Seattle, Wa

Serve as a program manager on multiple, concurrent, national-scale projects, insuring timely completion of project deliverables. Includes managing project staff, building and monitoring partner relationships and engaging and aligning stakeholders. Lead the implementation efforts on a national continuing education website, with over 300,000 site visits and 16,000 learners annually, including the development and solicitation of site content.Contribute to the successful development of grant proposals to private and federal funders by designing project budgets based on programmatic dependencies. Responsible for fiscal leadership on a portfolio of grants, creating budgets and forecasts, monitoring spending, and complying with grant requirements and reporting deadlines.

Research and synthesize data to support grant proposals aligned with team strategy. Ensured compliance with grant requirements across the team on concurrent projects, including the compilation of high-quality narrative and financial reports to funders.

Managed and coordinated all efforts under a multi-year, $1.9M grant, to support TechAtlas for Libraries, an online technology planning tool that collected and provided data to inform grants to public libraries. Included managing staff, contractors and stakeholder relationships.

Represented TechAtlas, an online technology planning tool for libraries, at regional and national conferences, and advocated for the value and importance of technology planning for libraries. Published and updated learning and promotional content related to technology planning and optimizing the use of online tools.

Provided direct assistance to staff in Virginia’s 91 public library systems in navigating and understanding current and emerging technologies. Designed and implemented continuing education opportunities to help library staff develop competencies with library-related technologies.

Maintained a vigorous travel schedule, providing training in over 200 public libraries to staff of various skill levels on the Microsoft Office Suite, Internet searching, website design and website evaluation. Also served as a peer coach for the training team, providing written and verbal feedback to enhance training skills.

Mlis, Library And Information Science

Ba, Psychology